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He’s a rulebreaker with heart. She’s a rule follower with ambition. Can teaming up on a college service project abroad bring these two opponents together? Together, they might just rewrite each other’s playbooks.

After a massive EMP attack cripples the West Coast, civilization collapses overnight. Claire’s only focus is finding her sister Lydia—before it’s too late. With chaos erupting around every corner, Claire is forced to team up with the last person she ever expected: her ex-husband. But in a world without rules, trust is a luxury they can't afford.

Two seasons ago, then-fifteen-celebrations-old Lake-Ellen Redwood’s Path in life changed when she became a fledgling Lady of the Leaves. On the morning she attempts to resume her lifelong goal of becoming a guild-certified accountant, she suffers a lightning strike while meditating beneath the massive Heart of the Forest. Fearful the incident blasted into her the devil rumored to be slumbering within the two-millennia-old tree, the local ruling council banishes her under penalty of death. Forced to flee, she travels to her uncle’s house in a distant city to heal in anonymity.

Criminal psychologist Bridget Bishop’s worst nightmare comes true when the Backroads Butcher returns to terrorize the small town of Mount Destiny, Virginia. Working with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit to track down the depraved serial killer, Bridget soon discovers her old nemesis isn’t the only killer in town. Desperate to unravel the terrifying truth behind the series of grisly murders, Bridget comes face to face with a remorseless killer who will stop at nothing to hide his evil past.

When the estranged wife of a high-powered pharmaceutical CEO witnesses the brutal slaying of her husband’s latest mistress, the prime suspect in the homicide claims that FBI profiler and criminal psychologist Bridget Bishop is his unlikely alibi. After the savage murder is linked to two similar homicides, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is drawn into the hunt for a suspected serial killer, and Bridget must join forces with a rival profiler in a desperate bid to find the diabolic killer’s hiding place before another innocent life is lost.

When the FBI links a series of brutal murders to a charismatic self-help guru, criminal psychologist and ex-profiler Bridget Bishop returns to the Bureau’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, determined to unravel the motive behind an unseen predator’s insatiable urge to kill.

Renowned criminal psychologist Bridget Bishop quit the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit after only two years on the job, exhausted and traumatized from facilitating the investigation and capture of one of the country’s most prolific serial killers.

Slapping the man who groped her isn’t a good career move, but successful ad executive Emily Archer has had it up to here with salacious looks and sexist comments. Unfortunately, the person she smacked is a top executive of her company’s biggest client. Instead of sitting in her hard-earned corner office pouring over marketing proposals, Emily is digging into her past with an EMDR psychotherapist to understand what caused her to snap.

Hiding toxic secrets comes at a price. Eva Peretti plans on throwing her best friend, Cat, an unforgettable bridal shower at a remote country estate. But the night before the shower, Cat receives an ominous message: Secrets will be revealed tomorrow. Will they be yours? Distraught, she calls Eva to find out if this is a game she has arranged, only to discover that all the bridesmaids received the same message and are equally shaken. Fearful that someone is out to sabotage her wedding, but not knowing who, or why, Cat agrees to proceed with the shower.

Sage Golding manages a popular thrift store in town, but her personal life is a secondhand wreck. She's drowning in credit card debt, her teenage daughter is living on the streets, and she's just found out her husband is cheating on her with a twenty-one-year-old college student. It's the last straw for this suburban mom.

Set against the rugged beauty of Canada's West Coast, this debut novel follows a woman who has seen the worst the world has to offer—and then tried to drink it away. A Canadian Armed Forces veteran haunted by combat and hollowed out by the bottle, she does the last thing anyone would expect: she turns to God. Not halfway. Not casually. All the way. She becomes a priest—her Hail Mary attempt to come in from exile from the human race.

In one night, she lost everything: her family, friends, identity, and Path in life. Her hopes now rest in a faraway land that may not exist... Saved from the flames of decoherence by her friend’s sacrifice, young Lady of the Leaves Lake-Ellen Redwood travels a new Path—that of a possessed, and not by any mere demon. Rooted within her is a being of immense power never before seen in her world. Forced to flee for her life yet again, she and a fellow possessed seek a place where they can live in peace.

Jasmine and Blossom Hamilton aren’t just sisters, they’re best friends . . . most of the time. That didn’t change when Blossom turned into a zombie. When the Hamilton girls move to Glastonbury, Connecticut, the girls have more to deal with than just starting at a new school and making new friends: people suddenly start turning up dead, brains removed, and Blossom is the prime suspect.